it was Cook and Poni on the Vinnie & Cook show today. I listened for about 2 min. Cook contradicted himself twice as to whether the Pens would win the series, saying he "didn't like the Pens chances in this series" and later changing to "I can see the Pens winning this."

Poni's whole argument was "Ottawa knows what goalie will be starting, so they're gonna win."

Troy Clarridy (sp?) is the worst, IMO. The only thing he wants to do is talk NFL draft and random draft prospects. Listening to him try to talk hockey is torture. He spells out every little detail in trying to make himself sound like he knows what he is talking about, when he could have made his point in 30 seconds.

cheesesteakwithegg wrote:Troy Clarridy (sp?) is the worst, IMO. The only thing he wants to do is talk NFL draft and random draft prospects. Listening to him try to talk hockey is torture. He spells out every little detail in trying to make himself sound like he knows what he is talking about, when he could have made his point in 30 seconds.

That dude sounds like someone they found on the street that morning to talk sports.

cheesesteakwithegg wrote:Troy Clarridy (sp?) is the worst, IMO. The only thing he wants to do is talk NFL draft and random draft prospects. Listening to him try to talk hockey is torture. He spells out every little detail in trying to make himself sound like he knows what he is talking about, when he could have made his point in 30 seconds.

As boring as he can be, I actually don't mind him as much as the other hosts. Sometimes all I need from a host is to direct caller traffic, jump in with a reasonable opinion, and change up the discussion as needed. Miserable Ron is too busy being a bitter jerk of a host to the listeners and to Vinnie, and Poni seems to be more worried about being controversial and outside of the box.

If I'm driving back home and listening on a weekend afternoon, I realize the station isn't gonna put their top tier talent in a slot where ratings are considerably lower.

I'm whatever on Mueller, but this fixation with his love for the NBA is odd to me. I get perhaps the complaint that in the midst of a playoff series, it wouldn't make sense to lead with the Bulls-Heat series, but if its somewhere on his show -- or on his twitter -- I don't really have an issue with it.